BongChong906

Hi Dr. Wildman, fellow Bostonian here, although I currently live abroad.

I 100% agree that AI text generation has a lot of harmful potential for the ability for students to think critically and make their own points. However, I have heard of/seen firsthand that AI/Plagiarism detection software often have 'false alarms' resulting in wrongful accusation to these students of these kinds of acts when they were putting in honest work, impacting their mental health during the lengthy investigation process and even their ability to graduate. I would really like to know, what kinds of improvements are being made in this area? And could you help me understand why these false detections occur in the first place?

Thank you for taking the time to answer my question! It sounds like more creativity-driven prompts for writing assignments is one piece of the answer to tackling the regulation of these new tools, rather than asking students to prove a point that has been made many times before. I haven't really explored the world of AI text generation but I'd like to think that these softwares would struggle to present new ideas, although admittedly that is more difficult for people too.